St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-22
WHY somE WOMEN rose.
Beautiful Forms seen Only in the
StudiO--A Esashful shop Girl.


StudiO--A Esashful shop Girl.
New York Star
A Star reporter asked a well-known art
list: why does an artist have to have a
model? With all the statues and pictures
and sketches that already exist, why must
he still go to the original flesh for his de-
signs?"
This is a realistic age," was the reply.
Artists used to study the antique-the an
tique forever. Now they want the real
thng-the thing of life. The art schools
used to demand that figure be so many
heads high Now they want them as they
are, all varying, as faces vary, as every
thing varies in actual life.
I'm Paris there are artists who go about
the streets in wagons with peep-holes cut
in the sides of the wagon tops, stopping
wherever there is queer posture or inter
estlng group or pretty face, or anything
worth reproducing. Pictures now must be
from the life II two artists study together
1t IS to be observed that one gets all the
subtletes of colorng, veinlng and skin
texture, while the other misses most of
them. 1t is the same with landscape paint
ing. Landscapes used mainly to be i'll
vented. Now artists are not contented
without getting even the pecul lar light of
the country they are painting in, and all its
effects OIL the ground and leaves of trees.
IAN artist demands of his model that she
shall be plump. pretty and clean. Artists
endeavor to get sittlngS from their models
in the morning. when the model is just out
OF bed, SO she shall be fresh, vigorous and
spirited They pay for private models
about 81 or S1.50 an hour, and usually en-
terrain them at luncheon. There is no end
OF men models. Artists find that they can
get almost any man to pose, draped or nude,
for one-third less than women demand.
Every artist has the addresses of fifty men.
Ii an artist opens studio i'll this city it
won't be three days before they and many
women will call and ask for work and beg
for money.
women differ very much Sarony, the
photographer and artist, says of all the
women he has seen but two were perfect.
The consequence is that this one is chosen
to pose for her limbs, another for her torso.
or trunk, and so on. Women who have
thin and unprepOSSeSSing faces often possess
the most beautiful forms. The face is no
criterion in Judging of model. Artists
all agree that the vanity with which woman
Is charged with possessing is no SANDER
upon the sex. for in private life it is found
that many women, the proudest and most
correct can more or less easily be got to
pose regularly, draped or decolette
or in short skirts. Thus figures
not obtanable among models are
often procurable for nothing, and the
women are proud of being selected for this
purpose. This is especially 50 with mar
ried women. Once they trust the honor of
an artist they will suffer themselves to be
put in any posture. no matter how rdicu-
hot Iyb
their easelS in the country the men will
laugh at them, but the women will draw
near to be sketched."
My artist friend told me of an interest
ing story of an experience he had with
woman, now a celebrated model, when she
hrSt posed in studio. She dropped in
upon him saying that she had been a coun-
ter girl in O'Neilfs, a shopping store, at
about Sc a week, and could not make both
ends meet; that lady friend, who was
model, had spoken of him as gentleman.
and that if he needed a subject she
would like him to tell her what to
do. He told her what she would have to
accustom herself to if she followed that
life. but she said she knew all about it, He
pointed to screen and babe her 90 behind
it and take off her things. Presently she
reappeared but i'll little more undress than
it she were about to retire. Informed that
this was not what was wanted, she disap-
peared and next revealed herself in COM
plete undress, but with her back to the ar
fist. Here was an extraordinarily beauti-
full form, and, as he made sketch of her
figure he debated with himself how he
should deal with her. He resolved to be
wholly businesslike, and so, walking over
to where she stood, he babe her turn around
and posed her as he wished her to stand
By the time he reached his easel she was
bent double, and indulging in fit of cry
ing, blended with almost hysterical laughter
He told her that it was quite evident that
she had better give up her ambition and re-
turn to her former life. and he supposed
she would But she did not.
She is now one of the most noted and
priced models in town. She remains a
perfectly good girl, but is not averse to
sitting entirely disrObed, and smoking
cigarette while curled up like Turk ona
lounge, waiting for her employer to begin
work. The most popular model now,
however, is a former model who has been
married, and had several children, and has
at last been obliged to return to the old life
in order to support her husband. Models
in good demand make $25 week. A
most curious fact that my informant says,
has been noticed among artists is that the
demimode cannot be got to pose as models
1t would be inferred from that that the
most utter shamelessness is found in those
who do that work, and yet very many--in
fact all who have a modicum of brains-are
good women who lead orderly lives and
keep admirable homes.